I came here a couple weeks ago precisely because of the recent upcoming Reddit API changes. They have kept breaking the trust of us users for many years and we have just rolled with it and adapted, but at this point i just don’t want to be part of it anymore. So, now i have a huge Reddit-shaped hole in my internet life, currently checking what will fill it. Lemmy holds promise to fill it, although there isn’t remotely enough users/communities on it yet to fully fill it, and i’ve yet to get used to it. We’ll see, hope it works for me.
I want to see more FOSS/FLOSS projects succeed. One of Lemmy’s biggest obstacles is its lack of users so I joined to be a part of the solution instead of the problem.
Hopefully Reddit’s changes provides similar benefits for Lemmy that Elon’s Twitter changes did for Mastodon. I’m not sure if Lemmy will ever reach the size of Reddit (or even Mastodon), but it honestly doesn’t need to if the community is engaged enough.
As you say, size isn’t end-all-be-all. It’s the engagement. There’s plenty of old-school forums online that thrive with around 100-200 members. Lemmy probably has double that in active monthly users spread across the 4-5 big instances. It already feels bigger than VOAT ever got. And, at least this instance (beehaw.org), seem to be way better modded and ran.
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I use it because it’s the best shot we have to build a real alternative to Reddit. It feels a bit like Reddit at 2008 or so.
But I have the feeling that I might just stay for the community.
Both? I started using it because it’s on the fediverse, and I keep using it because it’s on the fediverse and it isn’t reddit
Huh … hi Ada! Blahaj.zone has a Lemmy too?! Cool! Is it in any way integrated with your calckey instance? What got your hosting both a lemmy and calckey instance?
Yeah, we have a lemmy too! Basically, I tried to join some lemmy instances, but had to wait too long for account approval, so we decided to spin up our own instance. There’s no integration at the moment, aside from those included in default federation.
Same admins though :)
Nice! Very glad to see!
Yeah both for me too. Reddit is good, but federated makes sense.
Gonna be honest I don’t really understand the Fediverse yet but I’m here cuz it feels cool and reddit kind of annoys me these days
Same here. I know Lemmy should, in some way, connect to Mastodon, which is getting bigger
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That’s what I’m feeling as a new user looking for a reddit alternative. This whole thing shows a lot of promise, but it feels very complicated and not especially intuitive. That’s ok, though, nothing wrong with complex, it just going to take some getting used to.
Can you elaborate on how you came across this post? I’m having a hard time understanding the federation.
Are you following asklemmy@lemmy.ml?
@butter
I just recently learned you could cross-post. I don’t have a lemmy account so I just copy/pasted the URL from lemmy to mastodon’s search so I can comment/upvote. looks like you can follow specific lemmy communities tho! Search for asklemmy@lemmy.ml on your mastodon instance and click the “+” to follow.That’s amazing. I can’t wait to be able to follow mastodon from Lemmy. Afaik, you can’t yet
@butter you can follow lemmy from mastodon. Interacting seems more challenging.
Because of Reddit, but I’m very excited to see the fediverse grow such that Reddit is the last network I have to leave
I still browse reddit without an account for informative material and niches but my activity is all dedicated to lemmy, mainly for its open source and non commercial nature.
The fediverse is the future of the web. Reddit has been a massively important part of the modern web experience, but it looks like their pursuit of profits will begin to diminish It’s usefulness. Lemmy is slowly filling that void for me. Hopefully it continues to grow and fill that void for others too.
I use it because I miss what reddit used to be. Now, all the moderators talk about subs as their “projects”.
@koncertejo@lemmy.ml @asklemmy@lemmy.ml I use it because I prefer shared spaces to posting solo.on the Fedi. Reddits just slowly moving through the cycle locking things down bit by bit, not interested in contributing there.
I’d agree with both. The generally calmer and ad free experience here makes it a good Reddit alternative. It being federated opens things up better as well.
Finding out about Lemmy was this amazing extension of the Fediverse that could improve (and maybe eventually replace, but I’m not there yet) Reddit, which I’ve used for 10+ years and really love.
Mainly because of fedi. Had been using fedi for years, never had a Reddit account.
I am not a fan of micro-blogging style social media. I find sites like reddit and lemmy a lot more useful for me.
I think the answer to your question is maybe both? Lemmy is attractive both because of its reddit-like features and its fediverse features. But maybe more reddit than fediverse
I came here because reddit community is really bad (upvoting bad stuff) and mods aren’t helping. Still reading posts there. Here I feel comfortable voicing my opinion and I love the FOSS part of it (and I love infernoJS too).
I can see some uses for reddit for professional related topic, I once publish a blog post that got me traction and clients. I never used reddit for small/personnal/political talks because of this too.
I have never been in social networks (no twitter/facebook/mastodon/etc), I don’t see yet the pros of the fediverse.
